The albums have been graded on the most common grading system used in
Finnish schools. Where 4 is the worst, and 10 is the best. The final score
for the album is most of the times the average for all of the tracks, though it can also change if the reviewer wishes so. The Super Eurobeat Non-Stop albums will be reviewed as full collections, and the individual songs won't be reviewed, unless they are completely new. Though Euromach and JGTC albums for example will have complete song by song reviews.
The grading system simply goes as ie. 4- (3,75), 4 (4), 4+ (4,25) and 4½ (4,5) and the next one again would be 5-. A simple system we have over here in Finland.

Super Eurobeat 181

1.Marko Polo - Jungle Fever (Delta)
People who've enjoyed the past hits under the Marko Polo title must
be somewhat surprised when this track starts playing. The explosive energy
of such hits as Hai Hai Hai (Dance Across The Nations) or Stop
Your Self Control is still present with Jungle Fever but it's
still clearly different from what it used to be in the past. The change in
vocalist has had an effect on the track since it does feel slightly out of
place, but it's not necessarily a step for the worse, just a question of
getting used to. The song itself suffers from some rather odd composition
choices, like the excessive use of a lion/tiger roar that quickly becomes
more of an irritation than a positive side. The chorus is clearly what
hooks the listener the best, but it just doesn't quite deliver it all the
way for some reason, not sure what the missing element is, but it's just
missing the last nail from the coffin. A good song to open an album with,
but it could also offer so much more in my opinion, since the track does
have a lot of potential.Rating : 8+

2.Go 2 & Christine - Blood On Fire (SCP)
Eurobeat artists covering songs from Japanese artists may not be a very
common thing, but every once in a while it happens and I have to say I've
been more than pleased with the ones I've heard. The AAA's track Blood
On Fire didn't necessarily charm me that much when I heard it
originally, but somehow this version by the SCP superstars had a totally
different impact on me. Insanely addictive bass backed with superior
eurobeat sounds makes this one of the most impressive eurobeat tracks SCP
has pushed out in quite a while. What I find charming about SCP
productions is how they pair up male & female vocalists together so
commonly and they seem to work time after time perfectly. Blood On Fire
is all around perfectly produced eurobeat with great singing by Ace
& Christine and to back that up with aggressive and energetic
rapping by Fastway you get a real floorfiller.Rating : 10+++

3.Daniel - My Heart Radio (Delta)
After the awesome performances Daniel released on SEB179 I had my
hopes up for a similar highground for this title. But having high hopes
can be a bad thing, as it was with this case. My Heart Radio starts
off with amazingly annoying intro, can't say I've often been annoyed by
song as much as I was with this one after listening to it for 30 seconds.
What I found most striking this time around is that the soothing and sexy
voice that made Frontal Impact a hit doesn't seem to be able to
create any of the similar edge anymore. The track sounds strangely
incomplete although a lot of nice elements are present it feels like
they've just been thrown together without giving an excessive amount of
consideration on how they work together. A confusion is what I'd call this.Rating : 7-

4.Linda - Love Desire 2007 (Time)
Okay, I am not the one to get all swoony over all of these remakes we're
getting monthly now. I've given a complaint or two about how Time could
stop doing all of these remakes and spend that time to work on new
masterpieces instead, but this one time I'll give in and give a few
compliments. The way we've mostly been given remakes out of tracks that
are very widely known and heard on a 100 albums previously has damaged the
edge of some of the tracks. This time around the Macho Gang
original isn't exactly the most popular song so it feels a lot more fresh
and catchy for some reason. The remake itself doesn't necessarily offer a
lot of changes to the original but when the original track was effective
and catchy it doesn't really need it for sure. A nice song, turned just a
bit more modern, either you love it or you hate it.Rating : 9-

5.Jeff Driller - Back In Danger (HI-NRG Attack)
HI-NRG Attack has been doing a solid work lately with their productions
and Jeff Driller follows this path with yet an another catchy and
effective track. The song sounds suitable to be a Franz Tornado
song backed with some female vocals, but in it's current form it also
works nicely. Great vocal work is what keeps the song flowing nicely, the
traditional HRG sounds work nicely but won't offer anything new. So you
can pretty much say in advance if you like this song, HRG fans surely will.Rating : 9

6.Cherry - Abracadabra (Delta)
Delta keeps covering popular 80s songs every once in a while, occasionally
these turn out well but sadly not this time around. Cherry is
hardly the first person to cover the classic Steve Miller Band song,
and due to the fact that I've heard quite a few covers that were made a
lot better I had a hard time enjoying this one as much as I possibly
could've. The song itself is a classic for most of the people who grew up
listening to 80's music and it might be a tad hard to rework it into a
eurobeat format, so I don't really blame Delta for how it turned out. I'm
quite sure there are people who are going to enjoy this, but I'll probably
rather listen to the dance version S.O.A.P. did.Rating : 7+

7.Alexis - Beautiful(Time)Time females tend to be a bit of a clear division for most
eurobeat listeners, you either love the slower and thinner & airy kind of
stuff they release, or you simply don't. Beautiful is just like
most of the earlier tracks we've heard from Time's female army. If I
honestly put the last 5 Alexis/Rose/Helena songs together I would
never recognize one song from the other, these productions just lack
imagination all around.Rating : 6-

8.Maddy Layne - Lovers In The Night (HI-NRG Attack)Maddy Layne may just be one of the very few HI-NRG Attack titles
that have kept a very high and solid level with every single production,
Lovers In The Night is just a perfect song to follow the array of
older releases. The song starts off with a superior intro that uses simple
yet very catchy sounds and very soothing vocals. HI-NRG Attack may not
have been the best label to push out very well sung vocals due to
excessive use of high pitched vocals, and even though pitching the female
vocalist this time around again is present, it still sounds very beautiful
for some reason. The song features a killer chorus and excellent verses
which even exceed the chorus quite surprisingly. About everything in this
track clicks perfectly and the way the track builds up the thrill from the
chorus to the verse to the bridge to the chorus and to the c-verse,
everything just sounds marvellously thorough.Rating : 10

9.Chris Stanton - Take A Frame (Time)
Time's trend of slowing down their productions to a disco-esque style has
been somewhat contradictional to the eurobeat community. There are fans
who absolutely love this new mixture, then there's a half that can't stand
them, but I guess it's the usual love & hate way as with everything else.
I can't call myself the biggest fan of disco in general, but there have
been some great tracks under this style as well. Take A Frame is
quite the metamorphosis of different styles, it sounds like eurobeat, pop
and disco at the same time. The sounds and pace of the track are very
pleasant and the vocals also work really nicely. But what actually bugs me
the most about the song is the engrish lyrics that sound even too bulky
for a eurobeat song in my ear. There are quite a few points where the
lyrics just jump out and irritate me to the fullest. Other than the bad
lyrical work, I can't really say much bad about the song, just not my type
of song as a whole.Rating : 8½

10.Jay Lehr - I'm Alive (SCP)
This new stallion from the SCP-stable didn't quite convince me with his
first track but due to not having any expectations I was surprised
pleasantly. The track sounds very unique and different from most of the
SCP productions, it even has a slightly Time-flavorish mood to it.
What I found amusing every single time is how the intro sounds exactly
like the intro from one ancient Finnish eurovision song contest track.
This might have had a thing or two to do with the fact that I keep
thinking of ESC every time I listen to the track. The Europeans who read
this will understand me, and naturally we all have our different point of
views on how we appreciate ESC as a competition. But I'd be more than
pleased if I heard a track like this from Italy in there.Rating : 9+

11.Nuage - My Blue Sky (A-Beat C)
I try to be kind with my words on the reviews when I can think of even
small positive sides about songs, when I can't... well this happens. My
Blue Sky just sucks, the track is plain confusing to listen to. The
wonderful voice Denise is blessed with sounds distorted and odd in
this track. The chorus is plain horrible, the way the verse just suddenly
skips to the chorus just doesn't work at all and makes it difficult to
even notice when it began. The c-melody sounds boring, and well before I
give out more not so kind words I'll just call it here, I sure hope this
track won't be featured on a Best Of album since it really doesn't deserve
to be there.Rating : 5+

12.Annalise - True Colour (A-Beat C)
Well, what do you know. They really did it and topped themselves, an even
worse song than the previous one! What I said about My Blue Sky
also apply here, just even more so. A production that suffers from lack of
imagination, arrangement wise it just doesn't stand out or manage to have
any kind of highlights. Boring and definitely not the direction I was
hoping for A-Beat C to go to.Rating : 5

13.Rose - Over The Sky (Time)
Well, knowing that Time can do great tracks under their female titles does
always light a small sparkle of hope in me. It's just somewhat painful to
have it doused with a bucket full of cold water nearly every time. Over
The Sky is a production that doesn't do anything differently, nor very
well for that matter. Where are the quality tracks we heard on 179? This
just won't do, only hoping for the best for 182 since the titles who
shined on 179 are here again.Rating : 6

14.Mega NRG Man - Catch My Fire (A-Beat C)
If the quality of the A-Beat C productions on this album hasn't really
been the highest, it's always good to notice one of their strongest
performers to be present. Tomas' style works time after time, and
it's mostly a question of whether it works awesome or just well. Since the
previous track by Mega NRG Man was all around stunningly catchy
it's slightly disappointing when Catch My Fire can't really become
as much of an instant hit right away. The track has an intense and unique
way of using synths and it also becomes the highlight for the track, since
the structure of the track otherwise kind of suffers from repetition. Not
a bad track in contrast to the earlier ABC's, but not quite the
masterpiece I was hoping for.Rating : 8-

15.King & Queen - Dance (A-Beat C)
When I received my copy of the album, the first thing before listening to
it was that I typed the lyrics so I could skip doing that later. When I
was typing the lyrics for this track I was like "whoa, this track must be
good" since the lyrics are very wacky and resemble the classic K&Q songs
like Fun Fun Pharaoh, oh how wrong can one person be. Dance
is just plain torture, the biggest negative side about it to me is how
there's no Elena Gobbi present at all. Throwing her away from this
title is just blasphemy. Annerley Gordon is who sings the track and
it just doesn't sound like a King & Queen song to me with her on
board. But on other grounds as well, the only really interesting and fun
part about the track are the lyrics, the rest just stinks. Maybe the very
first _bad_ King & Queen song in history. And anyways, where's our
king? Rating : 5

16.Matt Land - Gunfire (A-Beat C)
A boring intro starts yet an another A-Beat C track, but fortunately this
time around we're heading to a very catchy area. It's been quite a while
since we had a proper new Matt Land song on SEB and it's obviously
about time. Gunfire isn't the next Night Flight To Tokyo,
that's for sure, but it does have it's own merits for sure. The song
suffers from rather boring verses and odd lyrical composition, but what
really makes the track stand out is the effective chorus. The vocals are rather amusing and memorable due to different reasons, just to name a few: the repetition of
Gun Gun...Gunfire- in the chorus is god damn catchy and memorable (and sexy), yet for the more amusing side the sentence I wanna touch your sexy body tonight just sounds somehow so oddly pronounced it bugs me every time.
After listening to the song more I found liking
it more and more, but with some more extra work we could have had a real
big time hit at our hands.Rating : 9

17.Manuel - Gas Gas Gas (Go Go's Music)
The expectations towards GGM don't seem to be in vain, not at all.
Manuel just seems to be the real king of eurobeat these days, he just
keeps topping his previous releases time after time and eventually there
has to be a stop for it, but not with Gas Gas Gas! This song is
just so well produced it reeks of perfection in every way. The sounds are
so full and effective I can't imagine Sandro Oliva & Domino getting
better than this, but maybe on the next album they'll do it again who
knows. Great vocals, super chorus, insanely effective c-melody and the
nice bit with electric guitars just complete an already terrific track.
Thank you yet again Go Go's!Rating : 10+++++

18.Go 2 - NRG (SCP)So we're already at the end and at the 2nd performance by the eurobeat
superstars. If Blood On Fire was catchy and energetic, what do you
expect from a song called NRG? Well the song delivers what it
promises, an overload of aggressive eurobeat energy that will definitely
please everyone who loves eurobeat. If you are here for a fast show, then
this is your queue. SCP really has stepped up again with this sort of
productions that don't shy away even in the eyes of random people who
don't even know of eurobeat (as wittnessed earlier today at my work place
by a bunch of elderly Finnish ladies). If the Finnish women who listen to
slow ballads find this "Strangely addictive", it has to be.Rating : 10+++

Final Words :
Wow, what an unbalanced album, the album offers quite a few super tracks
that are just screaming to be included on The Best Of Super Eurobeat 2007,
yet there is also a long list of tracks that just don't deserve to be
shown next to these masterpieces. I was hoping for a great start for 180s
but instead I got an album that isn't by any means bad, but it just
doesn't quite handle the job like it's supposed to. Either way I'm sure
that especially the people who got into eurobeat through the masculine and
aggressive productions will love this album, but probably also the fans
for slower beats will find a jewel or two from this album, but for me this
is definitely a thrill ride thanks to the fast eurobeat what I love the
most.